The boys club [electronic resource] : male protagonists in contemporary African American young adult literature / Wendy Rountree.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Masculinity studies ; v. 1.Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, c2011.Description: 134 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54099283608996073 22
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 R686 2011eb
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Contents:
Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining manhood: the function of violence in Kenji Jasper's Dark and Sharon G. Flake's Bang! -- Where have all the fathers gone?: searching for identity in Jacqueline Woodson's Miracle's Boys -- It's all in the way you play the game: African American boys and basketball in William Mcdaniels' Abdul and the designer tennis shoes and Walter Dean Myers' Game -- Are you gonna teach me something?: African American boys and the classroom in Candy Dawson Boyd's Chevrolet Saturdays -- Depicting male/female relationships in Walter Dean Myers' Motown and Didi and Jacqueline Woodson's If you come softly -- Looking back, looking forward: the role of the past in Christopher Paul Curtis' Bud, not buddy and Kekla Magoon's The rock and the river.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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